Article ID: | iaor1989524 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 739 |
End Page Number: | 751 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1987 |
Journal: | Environment and Planning A |
Authors: | Popkov Yu.S. |
Keywords: | biology, geography & environment |
The author considers a class of macrosystems where the relaxation time of the distribution process of elements is significantly less than the relaxation time of the self-reproduction process. The proposed model of such macrosystems defines the system of differential equations with nonlinearity generated by the solution of a mathematical programming problem with an entropy objective function. Methods for the structural analysis of this model are considered, and applications to demographic modelling, biological dynamics, and chemical kinetics are given.